ONLINE COMIC BOOKS: ANOTHER HOLLYWOOD GUNSTORY

SURREALISM ARTWORK BODY HORRORS

ONLINE
COMIC BOOKS: “ANOTHER HOLLYWOOD GUN STORY” A young introvert
driven to the edge by excessive exposure to social media finds
himself compulsively seeking out a personal arsenal. After traveling
to the far edge of the city our protagonist arms himself with various
weapons and returns to his downtown apartment. The overwhelming
power, and possible consequences, set his imagination reeling. He
ponders all sorts of subversive acts only to be set off by the beep
of his cell phone. Startled he lets fire a number of shots destroying
all his electronic computers and devices, and in essence his only
connections to the outside world or so called reality. From there the
tale spirals into a near dream world as our sad subject attempts to
find his place in society using a new found hypnotic prowess granted
him by his guns. Wrapped in a trench coat filled with an undetermined
amount of concealed weapons this strange misfit makes his way from
strange situation to stranger situation and ultimately to some sort
of enlightened metamorphosis (or maybe not?).

This weird
story is a part of my entertainment trilogy in which I use
surrealism, body horror and unconscious exploration to parody various
area of the arts. “Another Hollywood Gun Story” attempts to
dissect several typical mainstream cinematic tropes including
violence without consequence, misogynistic fantasies and action
packed sequences in order to re-imagine the action genre as the
ludicrous absurdity it actually is. There are also several reference
to films of great value scattered throughout the narrative including
Taxi Driver, Videodrome, Sonatine, and Tetsuo the Iron Man. In the
end the chaotic tale reads like a jumble of short critiques strung
together as if in dreams. In addition to this tale about the movies
the other two stories in this trilogy examine the fine arts and
popular music.

I have
actually been thinking about this story for a long time now. I first
came up with the as a high school student when I scripted a short
paragraph about how different the world would look if I always
carried a loaded weapon. It was just a idea but I never forgot about
it after all these years. Sometimes concepts just stick with me until
I turn them into comics and move on. When I decided to do this
entertainment trilogy the notion of carrying guns around on ones
daily routines jumped right out at me again and I was off and
running. I didn't do any scripts for the book just took it one page
at a time directly with ink on paper. The entire thing took about two
weeks to draw and was published in magazine format the winter of
2012-13 and as a part of my online comic books the a year later.